Houston Texans inside linebacker Brian Cushing has been fined $16,537 for striking Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco in the head area last Sunday, according to a league spokesman.
The hit drew a roughing-the-passer penalty.
Ravens middle linebacker...

Ravens offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak was visibly under the weather Wednesday afternoon, enough so that team officials issued a warning about getting too close to him.
Kubiak is suffering from a cold, but his pride is also stinging following the...

Each week, Baltimore Sun reporter Aaron Wilson looks back at the Ravens' previous game and ahead to their next opponent.
GAME PLAN: The Ravens' strategy of trying to establish the run backfired badly as they got stuffed repeatedly at the line of...

The Ravens had no concrete answers for how to contain Houston Texans star defensive end J.J. Watt on Sunday during a 23-15 road loss.
Watt piled up eight tackles, three for losses, four quarterback hits and a sack.
Watt repeatedly punished Ravens...

PASSING GAME
RAVENS: Joe Flacco isn't putting up huge numbers, but he's playing arguably the most efficient regular-season football of his career. Over his past five games, he's thrown seven touchdowns and one interception. He has 23 touchdown passes overall, leaving him two shy of tying his career high. Battling a knee injury, Torrey Smith has just two catches over the past two games, but Marlon Brown has picked up the slack. Steve Smith is 74 receiving yards away from his eighth 1,000-yard season....

Texans RB Arian Foster vs. Ravens ILBs Daryl Smith and C.J. Mosley: The Texans will give the Ravens a healthy dose of Foster, who has rushed 230 times this season for 1,127 yards. Foster is averaging 4.9 yards a carry, and runs with speed and power. The Ravens have one of the best run defenses in the league, allowing just 84.3 yards per game. Mosley, a rookie, leads the team in tackles with 120, and Smith has 108. The Ravens must control the action up front for Mosley and Smith to be effective. Edge: Even...

Ravens defensive end Chris Canty didn't practice Wednesday because of a lingering ankle injury, but he downplayed the severity and is expected to start Sunday against the Houston Texans.
Kick returner Jacoby Jones didn't practice because of an illness, while free safety Will Hill and left guard Kelechi Osemele didn't practice for noninjury reasons, which is usually the equivalent of a day off from practice.
Backup cornerback Anthony Levine (ankle) and running back Bernard Pierce (back) were limited in...

Football games generally are won or lost in the trenches, and although Sunday's 31-21 victory by the Eagles over the Houston Texans was no different, it also had another huge component to it that clearly defined the state of both teams.
The war of attrition that clearly was won by the visitors.
Thus begins this week's edition of Monday Morning Quarterback, which starts with the question: What if the Eagles hadn't lost quarterback Nick Foles, inside linebacker DeMeco Ryans and guard Todd Herremans to...

— Even before the X-ray machine was fired up in the bowels of NRG Stadium, Mark Sanchez had the Philadelphia Eagles fired up on the field.
The backup quarterback was thrust into his first action as an Eagle when starter Nick Foles was knocked out of their game against the Houston Texans with a left shoulder injury. He responded with a perfect touchdown drive to put his team back into the lead.
Perfect, as in a perfect QB rating of 158.3 on that first series, including a 52-yard bomb to Jeremy...

— A victorious homecoming proved to be bittersweet for Philadelphia Eagles linebacker DeMeco Ryans, who has a torn Achilles tendon, according to multiple reports that were confirmed by his agent Ben Dogra.
This means his season is over and that his equally devastated teammates will have to carry on without their spiritual and technical leader on the field with them the rest of the way.
Fellow linebacker Connor Barwin's touching words in the locker room provided the most fitting tribute following...